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name: "Serge Klarsfeld"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/serge-klarsfeld"
fi1m_id: "serge-klarsfeld"
imdb_id: "nm1550036"
tmdb_id: 1906927
wikidata_id: "Q539312"
roles: []
born: "17 September 1935"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T01:41:11.602742+00:00"
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# Serge Klarsfeld

## Identity

Serge Klarsfeld

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/serge-klarsfeld
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** serge-klarsfeld
- **IMDb ID:** nm1550036
- **TMDB ID:** 1906927
- **Wikidata ID:** Q539312
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Klarsfeld, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q539312, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1550036/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1906927

Actor. Born 17 September 1935 in Bucharest, Romania.

## Details

- **Born:** 17 September 1935, Bucharest, Romania
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Klarsfeld, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q539312, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1550036/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1906927

## Biography

Serge Klarsfeld is a Romanian-born French activist and historian. Born on 17 September 1935 in Bucharest, he has worked extensively to document the Holocaust and pursue the prosecution of Nazi war criminals and their collaborators.

He appeared as himself in the 1988 documentary *Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie*. Klarsfeld has contributed as a historical consultant and producer to several films and series on the subject, including *The Round Up* (2010) and *Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State* (2005).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie* (1988), Fi1m 89, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/hotel-terminus-the-life-and-times-of-klaus-barbie.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *La France de l'épuration, entre vengeance et justice* (2025), as 10 ans en 1945, rescapé de la Shoah et avocat

## Gallery

- ![Serge Klarsfeld](https://film.one/media/person/3926281/gallery-d734f5ae3d20.jpg) Serge Klarsfeld — Photo Claude TRUONG-NGOC, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Serge_Klarsfeld_par_Claude_Truong-Ngoc_septembre_2015.jpg/1280px-Serge_Klarsfeld_par_Claude_Truong-Ngoc_septembre_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Serge Klarsfeld, le 20 octobre 2010 à son domicile parisien.](https://film.one/media/person/3926281/gallery-630084ceb172.jpg) Serge Klarsfeld, le 20 octobre 2010 à son domicile parisien. — Nicolas Richoffer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Serge_Klarsfeld_2010.jpg/1280px-Serge_Klarsfeld_2010.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Serge et Beate Klarsfeld, le 20 octobre 2010 à leur domicile parisien.](https://film.one/media/person/3926281/gallery-ded52e164825.jpg) Serge et Beate Klarsfeld, le 20 octobre 2010 à leur domicile parisien. — Nicolas Richoffer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Serge_et_Beate_Klarsfeld_2010.jpg/1280px-Serge_et_Beate_Klarsfeld_2010.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 11 won

- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour 2022: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (won)
- Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit 2018: Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit (won)
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2015: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (won)
- prix Pétrarque de l'essai 2015: prix Pétrarque de l'essai (won)
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour 2014: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (won)
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour 2013: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (won)
- Commander of the Legion of Honour 2009: Commander of the Legion of Honour (won)
- Officer of the Legion of Honour 1999: Officer of the Legion of Honour (won)
- Officer of the National Order of Merit 1989: Officer of the National Order of Merit (won)
- Francine and Antoine Bernheim Award for Arts, Literature and Science 1984: Francine and Antoine Bernheim Award for Arts, Literature and Science (won)
- Knight of the Legion of Honour 1984: Knight of the Legion of Honour (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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